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« Created by: Sir Spot of Borg on: Apr 13th, 2012 at 12:02pm »

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Reply #45 - Sep 11th, 2012 at 3:20pm
 
Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Sep 11th, 2012 at 7:22am:
For some reason this thread died after i posted that article hahahahahahaha!

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Here is the opening statement of the essay;

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A Kiev art museum contains a curious icon from St. Catherine's Monastery on Mt. Sinai in Israel. It shows two robed Christian saints. Between them is a traditional Roman ‘pronubus’ (a best man), overseeing a wedding. The pronubus is Christ. The married couple are both men.


And here is the icon in question;

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Anyone see and clear proof of a wedding happening here?

Most of the arguments for the church having always accepted homosexual marriage is much a long the same lines of many modern day conspiracies; "Just an ugly looking bloke with weird eyes like the government would want you to believe... Or a reptilian shape shifter from the planet nibiru who wants to enslave the world and eat your babies? You decide...". In other words, just a lot of "maybe", "possibly", "could be", "if you squint and look really closely", and not a lot of hard proof.
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Reply #46 - Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:10pm
 
I expect the owners of the "art" from the monastery know what it is of. They have their records etc. Just because you dont know doesnt mean that nobody does.

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Reply #47 - Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:58pm
 
Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Sep 11th, 2012 at 5:10pm:
I expect the owners of the "art" from the monastery know what it is of. They have their records etc. Just because you dont know doesnt mean that nobody does.

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Firstly it is kept in Ukraine and not Egypt where the monastery is. The people of the monastery don't have it so would have little information on it. They have plenty of records in their library (worth visiting), but as the monastery wasn't built to after St Sergius and St Bacchus were already dead, it is unlikely they would have any information beyond the basic records.

Secondly, this icon didn't come to several hundred years after the two depicted were dead. So even the artist would have little knowledge.

Third, there no record attached to this being of a gay wedding. It is an assumption made by Josh Boswell, A Yale professor who happened to be homosexual. A gay professor living in the twentieth century has no more authority to look at this and see a gay wedding than anyone else. No one has claimed this to be a gay wedding until this gay professor came along.
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